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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead illustration of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the first casualty of the Civil War, under the caption "Remember Ellsworth!" Colonel Ellsworth was kill... |
| Date: | 12 1864 |
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| Description: | Andrew Gallup's commission in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. A certificate printed in black ink with a red seal of Wisconsin attached, ha... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Lithographed Civil War roster of the 31st Regiment, including insets of the Battle of Somerset or Millspring, Kentucky, and Pea Ridge, Arkansas. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | An image from a sketchbook of the town of Iowa Falls. There is a fence in the foreground and buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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| Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithograph of a waist-up portrait of Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen. Allen was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly f... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for volunteers for the Civil War, claiming "Highest Bounty And Pay!". |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Private Charles Baker, Company I, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | "The Soldier's Dream of Home," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored. |
| Date: | 02 26 1864 |
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| Description: | Engraved waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of General Robert E. Lee. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the camp of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry on Island No. 10 during the Civil War. Colonel Hans Christian Heg commanded the... |
| Date: | 06 06 1862 |
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| Description: | "Colonel Ellet's Rams approaching the city of Memphis, Tennessee, to demand its surrender." Sketch of a cityscape in the background, the river with numero... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A freed slave with a hoe in his left hand and his right hand on his hip. Caption at the top reads, "Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter." Ca... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Old Abe, the Wisconsin war eagle on a perch. The adolescent bird still has partially brown head feathers. The card appears to have a s... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of George W. Peck standing next to a chair. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Leander S. Miller, facing forward. Corporal in Civil War uniform. Hand-coloring on cheeks, gold details... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Cassius Fairchild, F & S, 16th Wisconsin Infantry. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of General George A. Custer. |
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